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Functional and structural liver involvement has been reported as a rare (2.5\u20136%) complication of the Smith\u2013Lemli\u2013Opitz syndrome (SLOS) (OMIM: #270400) and it has not been fully characterized. Here, we report on a long\u2010term follow\u2010up study of four patients with SLOS, and one case with lathosterolosis (OMIM: #607330) who presented with liver disease and underwent an extensive diagnostic work\u2010up. Reports of liver involvement in cholesterol biosynthesis defects are reviewed. Two main different patterns of liver involvement emerged: progressive cholestasis, and stable isolated hypertransaminasemia. In our series, the first pattern was found in two patients with SLOS and one with lathosterolosis, and the second in two SLOS cases. Cholestasis was associated with early lethality and normal serum \u03b3\u2010glutamyl\u2010transferase (GGT) levels in SLOS, while possible prolonged survival and high GGT levels were seen in lathosterolosis. Hepatic fibrosis was present in both conditions. Liver biopsy performed in one of our SLOS patients with isolated hypertransaminasemia, showed only mild hydropic degeneration of the hepatocytes. The presence of liver involvement in 16% of the SLOS patients diagnosed at our Center suggests that this complication might have been underestimated in previously reported cases, possibly overshadowed by the severity of multiple malformations. Fetal hepatopathy, cholestasis, and isolated hypertransaminasemia can occur also in other disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis, such as mevalonic aciduria (OMIM: +251170), desmosterolosis (OMIM: #602398), Conradi\u2013H\u00fcnermann syndrome (OMIM: #302960), Greenberg dysplasia (OMIM: #215140), and Pelger\u2013Hu\u00ebt homozygosity syndrome (#169400). This group of inherited disorders should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with liver disease associated with developmental delay and\/or multiple malformations. 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